About June 15
June 15, 2024 is the 167th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 199 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 228 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 15
- 763 BC –Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
- 1184 –King Magnus V of Norway is killed at the Battle of Fimreite.
- 1389 –Battle of Kosovo: The Ottoman Empire defeats Serbs and Bosnians.
- 1752 –Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: George Washington is appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
- 1836 –Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
- 1844 –Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
- 1859 –Pig War: Ambiguity in the Oregon Treaty leads to the “Northwestern Boundary Dispute” between United States and British/Canadian settlers.
- 1864 –American Civil War: The Second Battle of Petersburg begins.
- 1864 –Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acre around Arlington Mansion (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
- 1904 –A fire aboard the steamboat SS General Slocum in New York City’s East River kills 1,000.
- 1905 –Princess Margaret of Connaught marries Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden.
- 1919 –John Alcock and Arthur Brown complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight when they reach Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.
- 1944 –In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
- 1944 –World War II: Battle of Saipan: The United States invade Japanese-occupied Saipan.
- 1978 –King Hussein of Jordan marries American Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor.
- 1985 –Rembrandt’s painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.
- 1991 –In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th Century. In the end, over 800 people die.
- 1994 –Israel and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations.
- 2002 –Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75000 mi, about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
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